How Virtual Private Cloud ( VPC ) can benefit Organisations

Organisations are normally wary about the latest development in consumer technology space. Internet, BYOD , smartphones, tablets all are initially opposed by corporates due the security issue. Lateron the same technologies/practices have revolutionize the IT Sector.

Social networking websites were once considered as threat to the organisation. Nowadays same organisation are using the same social networking websites as a tool to reach out to their employees and customers.

In the last two decades Organisation has placed all the IT resources in their own datacentre and they were isolated from internet. But to improve the productivity of users in tour, new technology Virtual Private Network ( VPN ) was developed. This allowed users to access their corporate IT Resources from public Internet through secured Tunnel.

Currently there is a twist in the scene. organisations pressured to place their resources in the public cloud. They are searching to find ways on how to secure their data inside the public cloud. Virtual Private Cloud ( VPC ) offers them great security model in the public cloud.

Amazon VPC offers the following connectivity

VPC with a Public Subnet Only

VPC with Public and Private Subnets

VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access

VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access

Through this options any organisations can create a flexible and secure cloud network in which selected services can be placed in public subnet and all the remaining network can be build inside private subnets. The services inside private subnet can be accessed through VPN Access.